Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England
Stealing Obedience investigates works in Latin and Old English to pursue a series of questions about agency (here to use the term in its most general meaning) that emerge from my study of the discourses of Anglo-Saxon monastic life during the Benedictine Reform. By investigating a range of texts dealing with monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England: Osbern’s Vita of Dunstan, Ælfric&rsqu....

Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

"Orality and Literacy." In Oral Literature of the Middle Ages, edited by Karl Reichl, 120-39. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012.

"Goscelin, the Liber confortatorius and the Library of Peterborough." In Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico, edited by Catherine E. Karkov, 151-70. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009.

I am working on questions of agency in early medieval culture, particularly in Old English prose and in the writings of Osbern of Canterbury and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. My next project looks at the work of miracle narratives in England in the decades after the Norman Conquest.